Note for future: Perhaps all future conference wikis should link to http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Acronyms a listing which is regularly updated and includes a wider range of acronyms??

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Note for future: Perhaps all future conference wikis should link to http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Acronyms a listing which is regularly updated and includes a wider range of acronyms??<br />

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That's exactly what we're trying to do. I've started linking to the existing Acronyms list from the sidebar of every ALA wiki, although I don't always know about new ones that are being created. All future conference wikis will definitely do this, though. Thanks -<br />

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[[User:Jenny Levine|Jenny Levine]] 15:54, 11 May 2007 (CDT)

Revision as of 15:54, 11 May 2007

The ALA Acronyms page was changed to be more of a Glossary using the example from Wikipedia. You can now link directly to the short name of any acronym by appending a #ACRONYM on the end of the ALA Acronyms link.

The basic structure for this is [[ALA Acronyms#ACRONYM|LINK_TEXT_TO_SHOW]] so, for example, we could use [[ALA Acronyms#FID|FID]] to create a link directly to the expanded definition for FID.Christopher Harris 12:13, 21 February 2007 (CST)

Admin note: For future uses of the ALA Acronyms page, please also copy and "install" the CatAZ template for the horizontal index. You can access the CatAZ code by editing the ALA Acronyms article and following the link to the CatAZ template page. Then edit the template page to copy the code. When the ALA Acronyms page is recreated somewhere else, it will automatically create a link to a blank page for the CatAZ template. Paste the CatAZ code onto that page to enable the horizontal top index.Christopher Harris 12:19, 21 February 2007 (CST)

Note for future: Perhaps all future conference wikis should link to http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Acronyms a listing which is regularly updated and includes a wider range of acronyms??
That's exactly what we're trying to do. I've started linking to the existing Acronyms list from the sidebar of every ALA wiki, although I don't always know about new ones that are being created. All future conference wikis will definitely do this, though. Thanks -Jenny Levine 15:54, 11 May 2007 (CDT)